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. 2021 Sep 14;12:733606. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.733606

TABLE 4.

Results of single SNP MR analyses and the overall causal effect of leptin levels (EWAS) (Yaghootkar et al., 2020) on the risk for anorexia nervosa (AN) (Watson et al., 2019) calculated using different MR methods. The beta estimates the change in risk for AN (OR is transformed to beta) per change of 1 SD in leptin level [ng/ml (rank based inverse normal transformation)].

SNP and nearest gene Effect of leptin levels on risk for AN (SNP n = 7) Effect of leptin levels on risk for AN (the SNP rs1121980 was excluded)
B se p Lower 95% CI Upper 95% CI b Se p Lower 95% CI Upper 95% CI
rs1260326 GCKR −0.697 0.431 0.106 −0.697 0.431 0.106
rs13389219 COBLL1 0.078 0.296 0.791 0.078 0.296 0.791
rs62621812 ZNF800 0.085 0.444 0.849 0.085 0.444 0.849
rs791600 LEP 0.905 0.316 0.004 0.905 0.316 0.004
rs900399 CCNL1 −0.643 0.412 0.119 −0.643 0.412 0.119
rs972283 KLF14 0.222 0.329 0.500 0.222 0.329 0.500
rs1121980 FTO 0.289 0.245 0.239
MR Egger 0.986 0.713 0.225 −0.412 2.385 0.607 0.866 0.522 −1.090 2.305
Inverse variance weighted −0.132 0.192 0.491 −0.508 0.244 −0.281 0.207 0.175 −0.687 0.125
Simple median 0.078 0.223 0.726 −0.359 0.515 −0.282 0.208 0.175 −0.690 0.126
Weighted median 0.083 0.178 0.641 −0.265 0.431 −0.098 0.218 0.652 −0.526 0.329
Penalised weighted median 0.115 0.177 0.517 −0.232 0.461 0.078 0.215 0.715 −0.343 0.500
Simple mode 0.166 0.268 0.560 −0.360 0.692 0.099 0.444 0.833 −0.772 0.969
Weighted mode 0.193 0.187 0.342 −0.174 0.560 0.116 0.292 0.707 −0.456 0.688
MR RAPS −0.099 0.201 0.623 −0.493 0.295 −0.250 0.221 0.258 −0.682 0.183
MR PRESSO no outlier
Eggers intercept = −0.051, SE = 0.031, p = 0.167
Heterogeneity test based on MR Egger Q (df = 5) = 9.241, p = 0.100; IVW: Q (df = 6) = 14.058, p = 0.029
MR PRESSO no outlier
Eggers intercept = 0.038, SE = 0.036, p = 0.351
Heterogeneity test based on MR Egger Q (df = 4) = 7.879, p = 0.096, based on IVW Q (df = 5) = 10.074, p = 0.073

b: effect size; se: standard error; p: p-value; CI: confidence interval b: effect size; se: standard error; p: p-value; CI: confidence interval. Bolded values: p < 0.05.